The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1887-12-01

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North Carolinians |! May the Light
of Heaven ever illumine your path
way, and guide you III ways Of pros
perity and peace.
E. City Economist: Keep up your
farmers clubs. Intensity your@farm-'
ing Farmers Clubs may not produce
great fruits at first, but they will bear
fruits. But intensity. If land that
will produce one barrel to the thou
sand will not pay, make it produce
three barrels, and if that will not pay
make the same land produce five bar
rels und if that will not pay. make the
same, land produce ten barrels, and if
that will not pay quit farming and
Goldsboro Argus: The boldest rob
berry on record, certainly in this city,
was that perpetrated yesterday after
noon by a young mulatto man upon
Col. L. w. Humphrey, county tax col
lector. Col. Humphrey and MIR. L.. D.
Gulley were standing at the street en-
trance to his Office talking when the
negro in question came down the stairs.
Something in his manner aroused the
suspicion of the Colonel and he ran up
stairs to investigate. The Colonel
found on going to his Office that his
desk drawer had been robbed of about
$40 or $50.
Charlotte Chronicle: The people of
Concord are arranging for the appear
ance there, on the second Sunday in
December, of Rev. R. G.. Pearson, the
evangelist.-The Carolina spoke and
handle factory, established in this city
a few months ago by Carsons Broth
ers, is proving a most successful bust
ness venture, as the firm is crowded
with orders. They now have orders
in hand from Germany, and from the
Southern States and some of the
Northern States. They last week
filled orders from points in Maine and
Florida. The factoey has a daily ca
pacity of $500 spokes and IS pairs of
rims, and it is taxed to it's fullest Ca
pacity. The factory gives employ
ment to 33 hands, all skilled labor,
who are paid from So to $3.50 and
some $3.-Col. Chas. W. Bradshaw,
who is with Mr.. Richard Moore, yes
terday sold, packed and shipped a
Domestic sewing machine to Monro-
via, the capital city of Siberia, Africa.
How is that as an evidence of the
manner in which Charlotte's trade is
reaching out? .
Durham Recorder: W. Duke Sons
& Go. are Indirectly a savings bank.
They receive the deposits of their en-
ployees under the same rules and
regulations of a savings bank agreeing
to pay 6 per cent. on all deposits
A young man of pleasing appearance
boarded in the family Of a widow lady
and made love to her daughter, agood
looking girl. He lost his job, and
when out of money she made him a
present of a suit of clothes. He
thanked her and went out and married
somebody else's daughter.-In one
month Durham had a circus, the
Baptist State Convention, the laying
of a court house cornerstone with
Masonic ceremonies, two sudden
deaths, two fatal accidents, and one
attempt at suicide. This is not all.
Her population was increased by a
score of native born infants, fifty or
more immigrants, one horned rooster
and two white 'possums.--The
Baptist State Convention was in Dur
ham five days, and from the grocers
and butchers we estimate what it took
to feed it. Thirty steers at an average
weight of five hundred pounds,
hundred barrels of flour, fifty bushels
Of meal, one hundred turkeys, one
thousand chickens, one hundred and
fifty gallons of oysters, one thousand
pounds of butter, two hundred pounds
Of mince meat, fifty geese, sixty or
seventy guineas, and hundreds of
pounds of jellies and preserves, and
milk by the barrel. The b%ack-yards
are dyedacrimson by the$blood of
fowls slain at the altar to appease the
god of hunger --On yesterday Mr..
D. c.. Mangum, Superior Court Clerk,
duly Incorporated under the law 'The
Builders Manufacturing and Supply
Company" with a capital of $4,000
with power to increase to $780, 900.
Shares $50 each. The incorporators